PARTS Monthly Meetup: Show & Tell with Geoff Rhoads, CTO at Transformative Optics

What: Portland Area RoboTics Society (PARTS) Meetup
When: Sunday, February 8 · 10:30 AM
Where: Control H / PDX Hackerspace — 7608 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR • pdxhackerspace.org

Note: PARTS is meeting a week later than usual this month. Joe Cole coordinated this session with Geoff Rhodes.

What’s happening
Geoff Rhoads, Founder and CTO at Transformative Optics Corporation will run a show-and-tell style session walking through array camera images, sample outputs, and several of the company’s custom lens designs. Expect a conversational flow with pauses for questions as the visuals come up, plus a 5–15 minute open Q&A at the end.

This format is ideal if you work with (or are curious about) robotics, computer vision, imaging systems, or novel optical hardware and want to see real hardware and data, not just diagrams.

Why you should come

• Get a behind-the-scenes look at unconventional optics and what they mean for practical CV/robotics work.

• Ask implementation-level questions while examples are on screen.

• Compare tradeoffs you’ve seen with what Geoff’s team is building.

Who it’s for
Engineers, builders, and curious folks across experience levels.

Logistics

• Doors at 10:20; talk starts 10:30.

• Control H / PDX Hackerspace: https://pdxhackerspace.org/